Improvement in car-couplings



J.'o-. DEARBORN.

Oar Coupling. I No. 110,214. Patented Dec. 20, 187 0.

and Figure 3 is a detached view of guide-plates, as will h lal @tffitt.

Jenn o. DEARBORN, or GANDIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Letters Patent No. 110,214, dated December 20, 1870.

.IMPROVEMENT IN AR-QQUPLINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these has; Patent' and. making part of the lame.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J onn G. Dnnnnonn, of (landia, in the county of Rockingham and State ,of New Hampshire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shacklihg-Oar's; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof suflicient to enable others" skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of my device; Figure'2 is a central vertical longitudinal section;

be hereinafter explained.

My invention relates to car-couplings, and consistsof a device for supporting the link in one draw-head while a second car-is being coupled thereto, and in so adjusting the height of the link as to be able to con-- nect with a draw-head arranged upon a car at any or- ,dinary height.-

to the car platform, I arrange a support for the link I), which is constructed as follows:

Betweenftwo arms, D D, I securea bar or block, O,

' of considerable weight, which is provided with a curved lug or projection, c, made'therewith or secured-thereto as may be most desirable.

The *arms 1) D slide in guides E E of the shape shown at fig. 3, and underneath the car, between the gnides,a block, 0, is secured, which is formed or otherwise provided with a projecting'arm, f.

A slotted or forked arm, F, is pivoted to this arm by one end, and by the other to some part of the carframe g: The use of the hinged joint thus formed will appear presently. I v

To the inner sides of the guide-plates E E rods H Hare pivot-ed, and extend therefrom upwardly. To their upper ends levers I I are secured, which levers have their fulcruuis at h h.

i '6 are --stops, to prevent the levers from dropping the support too low.

The operation is as follows, and the object and advantages of the invention will more fully appear:

When-it is desired to couple two cars, the bar or block 0 is pulled orpushed out, by means of springs, 850., suit ably arranged therewith, from the guides .until the' said'block is in front of the draw-head and the lug c is directly under the link. i

By means of the levers I I the support, having a ..fulcrum atthe joint between the projection f and arm F, is raised, and the link is elevated, so as to fall directlyinto the draw-head on the approaching car, the

bumper on which-pushes the block 0 back again into the guides, its normal position.

It will be seen that the block may be made so as to fall out of the guides of its own gravity, and also may be pushed out by means of springs, 8:0.

Having thus described my invention,

W'hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let: ters Patent, is-

The'coinbination, in a coupling-link support, of the block O with or without the lug 0, arms D D, guides E'E hinged to the arm F, and operated by the means and in the manner substantially as set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 7th day of May, A, D. 1870.

- JOHN G. DEARBORN.

, Witnesses:

R. J. P. Goonwrn', G. E. KELSEY. 

